Cricket was never meant to be a global sport and will never be one.
In the Georgian era UK, cricket was played without any rules and for fun, gambling was very common too. Only when Victorian era began, complex rules were made keeping the Victorian morality and Anglo Saxon Protestantism in mind, which is why test players wear white, it is the colour of purity and Christ.
Cricket was exported to colonies not for fun and games but to civilize them with Victorian morals, the game was specifically designed for the Englishman and had no philosophical similarities with the local culture of the colonies.
Which is the reason why you will never find and Italian enjoy cricket because it's philosophically British sport and the colonies enjoy it because they obviously remained colonies long enough to develop a taste for the game.

I watched the first 2 episodes of season 1 of Game of Thrones and then I never watched it, too complicated for me.
I do get reminded of the show by the memes I receive like "You don't know John Snow" and etc.

Yaar aaj kal hasi nahi aati watching Pak cricket team lose.
I'm afraid Pak team is going the same route WI went and Aus are going right now. Apart from Babar Azam's high quality batting, no player to watch out for.
In the 1990s beating Pak in Sharjah was as hard as beating 90s Australia side in Australia in an ODI game. So winning an ODI game at Sharjah against Pak was huge.